INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
PARIS: The QS World University Rankings 2019 has included seven Pakistani universities into the prestigious annual index of global
varsities.The Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS) has been ranked as the country highest-ranking university at
397, while NUST stands at 417 followed by QAU.The top three universities this year are Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford
University and Harvard University respectively
The trio seizebed the top three spots just as they had in 2018, followed by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the fourth spot
The only change in the top five sees University of Oxford (5th) overtaking the University of Cambridge, which has now been relegated to the
sixth spot.Every seven Pakistani universities to have made the list are based in either Lahore or Islamabad.The National University of
Science and Technology (NUST) stands at 417 followed by Quaid-e-Azam university (QAU).Universities ranked in the list:PIEAS: 397NUST
Islamabad: 417QAU: 551-560Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS): 701-750Comsats Institute of Information Technology:
751-800University of Engineering Technology (UET) Lahore: 801-1000University of the Punjab: 801-1000However, no university from Sindh, K-P
and Balochistan made it to the global ranking.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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